Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-01

I TIVE E.==.s1 11sT-- =1-s+ 800,
dangerous trip, but fishermen fire.
quently make it and laugh at the idea
OF danger, says the Herald.
A. c. Campbell, of Puyallup, has
contracted with John Carson for 30
600 pounds of this years hops, de-
livered at Puyallup at Is cents per
pound. He has also sold l26,OOO hop
roots at ~ a thousand. A good many
OF these roots he sent to New York
State, where they will be replanted.
Columbia Chronicle: Deputy U. S.
Marshal Hamilton is at Pomeroy and
in endeavoring to sell the timber seized
from the Henley Bros, placed price
upon the same which was higher than
spectators would pay. In his wrath
At their refusal to buy, he threatened
to burn the lumber if he could not get
his price.
Men are said to be in great demand
in the Puyallup valley just now, and
farm hands scarce. The farmers were
never buster than at present. Many
of them are engaged in clearing land,
ditching and laying drain tiles, besides
pruning their hops, setting poles and
making other preparations towards
the growth Of their crops.
A young man named Charles An
derson aged 26 years, of La Center, a
few days ago was struck by a falling
tree which he had chopped down, and
received fatal injuries. His back and
three ribs were broken, and his right
arm crushed to jelly from the shout
der to the elbow. The physician says
there is no hope of his getting we'll
He is well connected On Lewis river,
where he has many friends.
A shooting scrape occurred a few
days ago ut Pyscht, in Clallam county.
An Italian fisherman went up to Port
Townsend on the Dispatch, complain
ing that Fred Brockaway had shot him
twice in dispute or trouble about
some land. His wounds, however,
were slight-one slight flesh wound
in the leg, and the other shot taking
off the end of his thumb. No one
could tell much about the facts in the
case.
Seattle Press: A well-known logger
said to-day: Woodsmen are getting
scarce. Every day people will call
for skidders, sawyers, and even bark
ers. More camps are starting up
every day, but the main question of a
logger to the man he wants to hire is:
Have you before worked on the
Sound ?" No, means less wages, and
yes, the usual rate. That thing has to
be changed. A man is fully as good
skidding east as west, and can do rs
we'll in one country as in the other.
Monday morning, in Seattle, Law
renee Kilfoy, a native of the State OF
Maine, logger by profession, aged A
years, fell PROSTATE on the sidewalk,
and died in two minutes. He had
been on Puget Sound many years,
was a first-class teamster in the woods,
always commanded good wages, and
at one time possessed considerable
means. He was strong and healthy in
every particular, except that for sew
eral years he has been subject to cpl
LEIPZIG fits and of which he has spent
much time and money in trying to be
cured, but without success.
C. B. Powers, electrician, serving out
a three years sentence in the terrific
rial penitentiary ut Seatco for stealing
and destroying certain portion of
the machinery of the Seattle Electric
Light Company, in whose employ he
formerly has been, made his escape
last Friday morning. He got hold of
a suit of citizens clothes, changed
suits and walked past the guard, carry
ing an AK on a wheelbarrow. The
guard, who thought lie was one of the
mill hands, opened the gate, letting
him pass through, ut 8 O'Clock in the
morning, and he was not missed until
noon. He is not yet captured.
Two men recently from the East
Watson by name-are entering the
chicken business on larger scale than
any one in the Territory before them.
They have leased from Governor
Squire tract of fourteen acres in 1.-The
valley" in the eastern edge of Seattle.
This land they have cleared and
fenced, and upon it they have built
nine houses, each IL by 16 feet. They
will start the business with 5000 hens,
and they will look to Seattle for their
market. The place they have chosen
is admirably adapted to the business,
and the Watson Brothers appear to be
men qualified to make it success.
| Saturday afternoon man named
Frank Hagerty, we'll known in Seattle
went to the Gold Bar restaurant of that
city and engaged room. During the
night a man who occupied bed in the
same room discovered that Hagerty
had a fit and waited ON him. Toward
morning, when the man asked him
how he felt. he answered that he was
better. In a few minutes he got up,
went into the hall, and was gone u
minute or two, but when he came
back he fell and expired almost in
stantly. DIR. Root, the coroner, was
sent for, and, learning the circum-
stances, did not deem it necessary to
hold an inquest. The evident cause
of death was heart disease, brought on
by a too free use of opium.
Sunday Mrs. J. E. Spoford died
under suspicious circumstances, ut
Slaughter, about twenty-five miles
from Tacoma. AS she was about to
become a mother, the neighbors be-
came suspicious and suspected her
husband of being the cause of her
death. The district attorney and
sheriff were notified, and left Seattle to
investigate. They found sufficient ev-
idence to arrest J. E. Spoford, hus-
band of the deceased, and the sheriff
brought him to Seattle and lodged
him in Jail. He admits giving his wife
Indian medicine to cause an abortion.
He dug a grave, and buried his wife
Immediately after her death. The
neighbOrs told the officers if they had